v3.5.0-beta.1

We're releasing this beta for the upcoming v3.5.0 release because of the LibSass bump. Please test this out and file any issue with Sass compilation.

LibSass

We've bumped LibSass to Delorean, check their changelog for the juicy details.

Windows XP support

In v3.4.2 LibSass and Node Sass starting compiling our prebuilt binaries with Visual Studio 2015 which caused issues for Windows XP users. After some incredible debugging and investigation by @am11 and @saper we believe we have addressed the Window XP runtime errors.

Features

• Updates to contributing documentation (@JohnAlbin, #1264)
• Improvements to V8 error handling (@saper, #1309)
• Improvements to custom import test coverage (@xzyfer, #1319)
• Replace request with got (@zckrs, #1358)
• Provide Program Database files (.PDB) for better debugging on Windows (@saper, #1337)

Fixes

• Normalize the way of writing 'LibSass' in documentation (@raithit, #1266)
• Fix broken URLs in readme (@ReadmeCritic, #1287)
• Use https rather than git to check out LibSass in fallback compilation (@saper, #1301)
• Fix poor reporting on for failing tests (@saper, #1307)
• Fix discrepancy between sync and async importers when returning sass.NULL (@saper, #1296)
• Fix error when outputting to a symlinked directory (@nibblebot, #1212)
• Fix node executable discovery in build script (@saper, #1323)
• Fix detection of Sass spec error specs (@xzyfer, #1342)

Misc

• Update dependencies (@ockham, #1269, @xzyfer #1321)
• Update license year range to 2016 (@pra85, #1344)